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5 Tips to Be More Mindful With Your Tech

By Kara Douglass Thom

Use these tips and strategies to make your tech work for you.

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How to Set Up a Barbell Back Squat

By Lauren Bedosky

This exercise works muscles around multiple joints in the lower body, building strength and muscle in your quads, glutes, and hamstrings. Here’s how to avoid common errors in the setup.

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How Does Sugar Affect Mood?

By Catherine Guthrie

Learn more about the effect that sugar and inflammation have on your mood.

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5 Essential Tips for Maintaining a Healthy Mouth

By Mo Perry

Caring for your oral microbiome is vital to your overall health. Integrate these expert tips into your dental care routine to support a healthy balance of bacteria in your mouth.

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How to Set Up a Barbell Deadlift

By Lauren Bedosky

This compound movement strengthens the hamstrings, glutes, back, and core. It also trains the hip-hinge pattern, which has functional carryover to other exercises and daily activities. Here’s how to avoid common errors in the setup.

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How Does Sugar Impact the Liver?

By Catherine Guthrie

The liver plays a key role in processing sugar, but eating too many sugary foods and drinks can strain this essential organ. Here’s why.

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What Is Sugar, Exactly?

By Catherine Guthrie

There’s more to sugar than what you may realize. Learn more.

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How to Set Up a Barbell Overhead Press

By Lauren Bedosky

Reaching for or lifting objects overhead is commonplace, making this shoulder strengthener a truly functional exercise. Here’s how to avoid common errors in the setup.

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Is It Possible to Have a Healthy Relationship With Sugar?

By Catherine Guthrie

Yes. Here’s some expert advice.

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Perform a Safe and Effective Kettlebell Swing With These Cues

By Lauren Bedosky

This dynamic move builds full-body strength and explosive power, working the posterior chain as well as the upper body, namely your lats, forearms, and hands. Here’s how to nail the setup and perform it correctly.

correct and incorrect posture for starting a pushup.

Are You Making These Common Pushup Mistakes?

By Lauren Bedosky

This fitness staple is a full-body exercise that builds core stability as well as back, arm, and chest power. Here’s how to nail the setup and perform it correctly.

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The Best Exercises to Prepare For Falling Sideways

By Lauren Bedosky

Trips and falls are inevitable. Here are some simple exercises you can practice to help prepare you mentally and physically when falling sideways.

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The Connection Between Heart-Rate Variability (HRV) and Vagal Tone

By Mo Perry

People with chronic stress tend to have low HRV. Learn why.

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6 Powerful Health Benefits of Sleep

By Laine Bergeson

There are plenty of good reasons to turn out the lights and climb into bed at a reasonable hour. These are just a few of them.

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8 Ways to Activate the Vagus Nerve — and Relieve Anxiety

By Mo Perry

The following techniques all safely stimulate the vagus nerve, but people with severe asthma, sleep apnea, or heart conditions should use caution with any electrical forms of VNS.

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Is Mouthwash Bad for You?

By Catherine Guthrie

You may want to cut down on the amount of mouthwash you use. Here’s why.

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A Self-Acceptance Meditation

By Henry Emmons, MD and Aimee Prasek, PhD

Try this short meditation to accept yourself just as you are.

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Does Nitric Oxide Help With Healthy Aging?

By Mo Perry

Learn more about nitric oxide and how it can help prevent age-related declines.

illustration of how to practice falling forward.

The Best Exercises to Prepare For Falling Forward

By Lauren Bedosky

Trips and falls are inevitable. Here are some simple exercises you can practice to help prepare you mentally and physically when falling forward.

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How Can the Vagus Nerve Help Lower Inflammation?

By Mo Perry

Stimulating the vagus nerve leads to the release of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter that affects inflammation. Learn more.

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How to Boost Nitric Oxide

By Catherine Guthrie

Nitric oxide is a gas that can’t be harnessed well in a supplement, so nitrate-rich foods are your best source. But, here are five other ways to increase the body’s production.

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